By Jonathon Van Maren After Australia’s stunning election last weekend, Bloomberg was blunt. “The New Right Is Beating the New Left,” read the headline. “Everywhere.” Prime Minister Scott Morrison, an evangelical Christian, was expected to get destroyed in a landslide that would sweep his Liberal-National Coalition from power. Every pollster predicted it, and every left-wing…
This discussion between Live Action’s Lila Rose, a longtime pro-life activist, and conservative bomb-thrower Candace Owens is fascinating. Candace Owen’s journey into conservatism has been an interesting one, and her perspective on how sex is sold to high school students is revealing and insightful. This is the sort of conversation that needs to be happening…
By Jonathon Van Maren The coffee meet-and-greet on Saturday, May 18 was supposed to be low-key. MPP Sam Oosterhoff was scheduled to show up at the Grimsby branch of the Canadian legion at 9 A.M., where constituents could show up with questions or concerns or just to say hello. A group of abortion activists, however,…
By Jonathon Van Maren While I have written many times in this space that the transgender ideology will badly hurt children, I will admit that a story published yesterday by NBC titled “Blurred lines: A pregnant man’s tragedy tests gender notions” caught me off guard. Just last week, I wrote a column detailing the recent trend of so-called “pregnant…
By Jonathon Van Maren Justin Trudeau, who presides over the only democracy in the Western world with no abortion restrictions whatsoever, decided to utilize this bully pulpit of fetal corpses to rebuke certain American states for recognizing what science and embryology already tell us: That the baby developing in the womb of his or her…
By Jonathon Van Maren It is always amusing to me that Canadian left-wingers enjoy referring to Stephen Harper as an arch-conservative, a man so right-wing his very name is apparently supposed to send shivers down the progressive spine. In reality, his primary impact on the political landscape was one progressives should be thanking him for.…
By Jonathon Van Maren Anyone who thought the abortion debate in America was going away has been sadly mistaken. It shaped the 2016 election, will probably shape the 2020 election, and the barrage of pro-life laws passing across the United States has been virtually nonstop. Pro-lifers are testing the waters, pushing to see if this…
While I must admit that I have no interest whatsoever in professional sports, the invasion of biological men identifying as so-called “trans women” into female sporting events has provided us with an interesting microcosm of the ongoing debate about whether or not a biological man can, in fact, be a female. The answer to that…
